Analyzing two student videos - S1-13

The first student video I watched was one from last year. The music video demonstrated characteristics from its genre (hip hop) by the style it was filmed and edited, and also the filming locations (urban areas, including the underground and a skate park).
It was hard to distinguish whether the lyrics matched the visuals, but from what we could decipher, they didn’t.
There was a definite relationship between the music and the visuals. The music style is very urban and the visuals reflected this nicely.
There were only a handful of artist close ups in the video. The majority of the video was more of a montage of clips.

The second student video I looked at was a video for the song ‘Sitting, Waiting, Wishing’ by Jack Johnson. The video was by the group 13R2-22 from last year.
The genre of the music is folk rock. The video was almost completely grey scale which matches the darker, gloomier style of the music.

The relationship between the lyrics and the video is amplifying. The darker effects on the video match the depressed, slow music.

The video follows the story of a mime who is constantly trying to impress a girl who's ignoring him. This matches the lyrics of the song perfectly.